With costs soaring, some colleges offer students a way to graduate early with a three-year college degree. But critics say students lose out on gaining breadth of experience.

Carmen Lookshire is halfway through her first year of college, but she already has her studies mapped out – and is looking at graduation in just two more years.

Three Year College Degree? The University of Illinois will look into ways to help students graduate in three years as it tries to save money and cut students' costs.

Sound off, Ron Kremer: I don't know about you, but I wasamused when Big Ten officials recently hired an outside consulting firmto explore the issue of expansion within the conference ranks. Ichuckled when the firm returned with its verdict: Yes, expansion is theway to go in this changing climate of intercollegiate athletics.

The Binghamton Garden Club is offering the Laimons E. and Silvia Drupa Scholarship to a Broome County high school senior intending to pursue an undergraduate college degree in horticulture, environmental science, forestry, botany or related fields of study.

In the past, we've taken a college degree for granted. Now, fiscal "responsibility" may ultimately force hundreds and thousands of students to put off college in the interim, or ultimately drop out altogether.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs there are an estimated 6,500 homeless female veterans on America's streets, double the number of a decade ago. Women veterans are four times more likely than their male counterparts to wind up homeless.

At institutions that train students in careers, enrollments are soaring as people anxious about weak job prospects borrow aggressively to pay tuition.